"An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty."

-- Samuel Butler

#Men Quotes #Errors Quotes #Devil Quotes

“... Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night....”

Source : Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.300, Delphi Classics
“Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.”
“in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor
“Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.”
“Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.”

Source : Meher Baba (1979). “The Narrow Lane”
“Atheism thrives on bad religion.”
“The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood”

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